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Hard
Candy.

An independent AI studio turning ambitious ideas into software that ships and scales. Based in California.

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Why technology should never set the ceiling on what gets built.

Technology doesn’t decide what’s possible. Ideas do — and Hard Candy exists to turn the most ambitious ones into systems that work at enterprise scale.

01 · No legacy gravity

Every product starts from what the problem actually demands — not from what an existing stack makes convenient. Old constraints don’t carry forward.

02 · Scale is a design choice

Reliability, security, and enterprise readiness belong in the first sketch. Scale is a property of how something is built, not a sprint that comes later.

03 · Peak innovation, shipped

Frontier ideas don’t get diluted on the way to production. The version that ships is the version that was worth building.

Things that ship.

Made with REAL Hard Candy
01
Boat Partner

Boat Partner · The app for boat owners

iOS / AndroidYachtBot AICruise logs + engine hoursMaintenanceShared expensesWeb management portalBank connectivity

A native iOS and Android app for boat owners, powered by YachtBot, an AI first mate that learns your boat and helps you get more out of it, easier. Scheduling, cruise logs, engine hours, maintenance, expenses and messaging with everyone who shares the boat, in one place. Backed by a world-class web-based management portal, with bank connectivity, and a full suite of management capabilities.

“We use this to run our four member partnership on a 40ft Sea Ray. Helps keep all the communication, calendar, and fuel info in one place.”

NataNik2026, App Store
Shipped4.5 ★ on the App Store →
02
Therapy Ally

Therapy Ally · AI‑native behavioral health

HIPAAReal-time voice AIStructured session captureClinician consoleAI-assisted case reviewPractice management

A voice-first AI companion patients actually talk to, and a console clinicians actually use. Real-time voice sessions are captured into a structured, reviewable record, and AI-assisted case review shows the clinician what mattered before the next appointment. Practice management, clinician invites and billing around it. Protected health information end to end, on HIPAA infrastructure we built for it.

“It feels like having a personal therapy assistant in your pocket. It doesn’t replace my therapist, but it absolutely enhances the work we do together.”

Amy Singh, App Store
Clinical releaseConsumer release5.0 ★ on the App Store →
03
Tennis Ally

Tennis Ally · A coach in your pocket

Real-time voice coachingPersistent model of your gameiOS / AndroidWhite-label platform

Conversation is the product. Tennis Ally listens to how you play, keeps a working model of your game between sessions, and coaches you by voice, on court or off. The first sport on the Sports Ally platform, built white-label so the next sport is a configuration, not a rebuild.

In beta
04
No6

No6 · A personal and business AI agent

Relationship matrixPer-person memoryGroup chat awareCalendar + contactsBuilds + publishes pages48-hour install

One agent, a different relationship with every person in your life. Your spouse, your kids, your assistant and your accountant each get their own voice, their own permissions and their own isolated memory, enforced in code rather than in a prompt. Lives in your family group chat without intruding; only speaks when addressed. Manages Google and Outlook calendars, works from your full contact graph, and schedules actions that actually execute at a future time. Reads photos and voice notes, drafts and sends email across multiple identities, and learns standing policies once that run on every message forever. Ask him for a web page and he builds it and hands you the link. iMessage, SMS, Telegram, email, and voice. One principal per instance. 48-hour deployment.

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